This remake of a 1989 British TV horror film actually has
wonderful production design... the Gothic mansion is a sight to behold.
Sure, some of the action scenes might have looked even better with stunt people instead of CGI fighters, but
the wonderful production design more than makes up for it.
Yates stages some eye - catching set - pieces, enhanced by
a wonderful production design (take a bow, Stuart Craig) mingling Mervyn Peake, Lewis Carroll and the spindly phantasmagoria of Ronald Searle.
Not exact matches
They include «Visualizing Gotham: The
Production Design of Batman», «Building the Batmobile», «Those
Wonderful Toys: The Props and Gadgets of Batman», «Designing the Batsuit», «From Jack to the Joker», and «Nocturnal Overtures: The Music of Batman».
The cast is
wonderful and the director uses color well as part of the
production design.
Production Design is a
wonderful high, especially walking the compounds of Disneyland where Walt Disney takes P.L. Travers on a tour of his magical kingdom.
Wes Anderson was also reveling in the good feeling by snapping up the Best Screenplay for the
wonderful THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL with a
production design gong for Adam Stockhausen.
That said, I've dug - up some fantastic concept art (none is from the film) which many artists have already put together and hopefully the
production design team over at Dreamworks sees this
wonderful artwork influencing the final look...
Utopia (30:11)--
Wonderful piece looking at the
production design and other aspects of the film's visual components.
Special Effect and
Production Design (14:10)--
Wonderful little featurette looking at the technical aspects of Rabid Dogs.
Garland deserves plaudits for his world, for his film's
production design, for his shrewd decision to make society outside of Nathan's compound into a chaotic, silent mess (both the film's first and last scenes are wordless, a
wonderful bit of symmetry).
The
production design is
wonderful, and the CGI character animation — particularly of the house elves — shows just how many years have passed since the rather laughable attempts in the earlier films.
Colorful being not only the vast racial differences in the southern elements of the film, but the costuming and
production design switching to a vibrant color scheme is
wonderful to see.